Ruthless parity aside, it's just a fun league to follow. This is the same conference that gave us the five-foot-five-inch Earl Boykins, the I'm-not-John-McGinley Dan Majerle, and the just-got-traded-to-Boston Wally Szczerbiak (36 points in Scrabble).
The league doesn't have any stars like that this year. And the two leading scorers — BG's Martin Samarco and Eastern Michigan's John Bowler — are on last place teams. Hey, all the more reason to keep an eye out for all the teams, right?
Akron's always been a solid basketball program. Since their football team broke through and won the conference this year, I'll earmark them as today's favorite to play in the NCAA tournament.
But if they lose to Bowling Green Sunday afternoon, then you can just disregard this entire post, come to my house, and punch me in the face.1
(1) - Please don't punch me in the face. It hurts.
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